Hello Bj”rn,

On Tuesday May 28 2019 13:08, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>> As opposed to the two decades of brouhaha that you have raised
 MvdV>> over two dots over the letter 'o'?

 BF>    Can you verify that? All I've ever said is that I appreciate the
 BF> effort it takes to get my name correctly spelled in some countries --
 BF> and I highly respect those that do.

But you won't retuen the favour.

 BF>>> Ah well, CP 850 is the primary code page and default OEM code
 BF>>> page in many countries,

 MvdV>> For DOS.

 BF>    In case you didn't know it, Fidonet is and has always been a DOS
 BF> based network.

Not any more. Systen running on pure DOS are the rare exceptions these days.
The vast majority runs on Windows or Linux. A minority on OS/2.

 BF> All you have to do is look at all the eight bit structures of all our
 BF> definitions. Ever since we got 16-bit

You may have forgotten, but Fidonet started on 16 bit systems. AFAIK no Fidonet
mailer ever ran on an 8 bit system.

FWIW I once considered writing a Fidonet mailer for my 8 bit 6808 Flex system.
The show stopper was that ARC was a bridge too far for it.

 BF> and then 32 and now 64-bit systems, I've been fighting with stuff like
 BF> big vs. little endians and similar, I happen to know.

Your point?


Cheers, Michiel

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